  
| Author: | NoGravitasHere  | | Posted: | Feb 8, 2024 07:23 | | Subject: | Re: What is #44814 Glitter Trans-Clear coated in? | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | Catalog | |
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| In Catalog, Akir writes:
| | In Catalog, NoGravitasHere writes:
| | Had this first image cross my path today, a supposedly non-glittery Avohkii.
It reminded me of a damaged one I had in my sad bin, which had a chunk of its
crest missing its trademark shininess. I had to mess with a bunch of other stripping
chemicals anyway (bonus pic of my shiny new dechromed Light Grey Hau) so I figured
I'd chuck this in some chems and see what happened.
Evapo-Rust was unreactive, unsurprisingly. I only used that because I knew it
could strip galvanisation off screws and I had the ex-chrome Hau to test (also
no reaction). Simple Green concentrate was similarly unreactive, but stripped
the Hau perfectly when used with the ultrasonic cleaner. I did manage to get
a positive reaction with IPA, and was able to get the glitter layer to go tacky.
I scraped off the majority of the central crest with my thumbnail as a proof
of concept sorta thing. I can confirm that it's just a layer over top. There's
a milky white transparent mask underneath. I feel cheated.
I've currently got it sitting overnight in a bath of acetone-based nail polish
remover (hardware store was closed, supermarket was not lmao) and will strip
the glitter 'varnish' off entirely. I'd love to know exactly what
this glitter layer is made of, if anyone has any insight? It might make removing
it a little easier.
The next question here is: what colour actually is this? I was under the impression
117 Glitter Trans-Clear was plastic with embedded glitter, not just a coating.
Would this just be 40 Trans-Clear + shiny varnish?
Cheers
James @ PSPS
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Looking forward to reading about the effect of the nail polish remover - I tried
that once to remove stains from a minifig, and it dissolved the plastic altogether,
so I stopped using that...
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Acetone eats ABS, which I assume is what minifigs are made of? I'd suggest
IPA as an alternative, but I think it'd melt the prints... Regular ass Lego
isn't really my area tbh, I specialised in this dumb niche area of the hobby
for some godforsaken reason.
Polypropylene, the main softer plastic used for Bionicle crap, is non-reactive
with acetone. The mask has been sitting in there at least a couple of hours now,
and it's not a pile of sludge. I just popped in to check the mask, the glitter
coating is definitely weaker, and scratching off nicely. I might run it through
the ultrasonic cleaner tomorrow when I have time to spare. Can't run a flammable
solution through it without some pretty strict safety measures, including constant
observation.
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